Why would you care? And why would you use meaningless values as the Name for a control? When you use the wizard or when you drag fields from the field list, Access assigns the bound field name as the control name. When you click on a control in the ribbon and draw it on the form/report, Access assigns an arbitrary name. You should then change that to something meaningful. Who wants to look at code that references text038 and chk120?

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The first two articles in this short series — Using a Criteria Form to Filter Records (http://www.experts-exchange.com/A_6069.html) and Building a Custom Filter (http://www.experts-exchange.com/A_6070.html) — discuss in some detail how a form can be…

I see at least one EE question a week that pertains to using temporary tables in MS Access. But surprisingly, I was unable to find a single article devoted solely to this topic.
I don’t intend to describe all of the uses of temporary tables in t…

Show developers how to use a criteria form to limit the data that appears on an Access report. It is a common requirement that users can specify the criteria for a report at runtime. The easiest way to accomplish this is using a criteria form that a…